The Listening Activity Book:Teaching Literal, Evaluative, and Critical Listening in the Elementary School.

Smith, Charlene W.

Helping elementary school children learn to listen requires a program with listening objectives well defined and listening experiences designed to fill these objectives. This booklet contains a variety of practice exercises for teachers to use in helping their students learn to listen and explains how teachers can devise additional exercises to meet the specific needs of their students. In part one, ten basic types of listening experiences are outlined; in part two, twenty-three listening games for young children are described; in part three, advertisements are used to teach listening for evaluation; and in part four, students gain experience in listening to interpret a speaker's motive. (JM)